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Oil company hasn't replaced leaking tanks near Fort Collins despite months of complaints (The Coloradoan)
Former PSR Colorado board member, Cory Carroll, is quoted in this recent article in The Coloradoan. The article details the impacts that fugitive emissions from leaky oil and gas equipment and actively-producing operations near North Fort Collins are having on residents living in close proximity to the Prospect Energy site, and the inadequate response from State and local regulators.
PSR Colorado Launches New Website
Welcome all, to the new and improved PSR Colorado website.
There are many ways to get involved with our goal of working towards a healthier Colorado.
Harvard University Study: Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018.
More than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested, according to new research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London. Researchers estimated that exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel emissions accounted for 18 percent of total global deaths in 2018 — a little less than 1 out of 5.
Profound editorial on climate action
One of our newest board members brought this editorial to our attention, and we absolutely feel it needs to be read.
Opinion: The health risks of fracking justify Adams County’s new regulations
The ColoradoSun online newspaper published my op-ed today about the Adams County Commissioners’ new fracking regulations. It’s similar to the comments I submitted to each Commissioner during the public comment period.
PSR in the news: Boulder Daily Camera
If Dr. Helmig is guilty of monetary improprieties, as implied by the university, I will guarantee it was a mistake. My assertion is that Dr. Helmig’s work revealed the health hazards from fracking, and those wells are owned by an extremely powerful group (the oil and gas industry), and that group wanted him silenced.
Dr. Detlev Hemig fired from CU
In April 2020, Dr. Helmig, was abruptly fired from his academic post with the university barring him from his lab and 25 years of research. This was an unexpected action to remove a researcher who was willing to publish data contradicting the powerful Oil and Gas Industry. PSR Colorado is concerned that the firing of Dr. Helmig is political and related to the financial ties the Oil and Gas industry has with CU Boulder.
Legal updates Rocky Flats
The incurable cancer threat remains despite the recent anthropogenic geographical interstices of the Rocky Flats Superfund site: the current Rocky Flats Site (OU1), Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge (OU2), Jefferson Parkway (OU2), and offsite lands (OU3) where respirable - Plutonium Dioxide - dust remains.
Soil contamination/Plutonium update 4/1/20 - Michael Ketterer
Decades of studies have demonstrated that soils from the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and surroundings contain elevated levels of plutonium (239+240Pu). The plutonium originating from Rocky Flats is found in two distinct forms: a) plutonium that is dispersed relatively uniformly on the surfaces of all the soil particles, and b) “hot particles” of essentially pure plutonium dioxide.
“I can’t breathe.”
Across the country and even the globe, citizens of all races, colors, social classes, statuses, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, physical abilities, and religious beliefs are mourning the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd. Tragically, Mr. Floyd is not alone.
Important Review Paper: A Quick Look at Plutonium Contamination from Rocky Flats
The first of the two nuclear bombs used against Japan was a uranium bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The second bomb, which destroyed Nagasaki, was a plutonium bomb. U.S. authorities soon realized that plutonium bombs weighed less but had a bigger explosion, so they decided that all future U.S. nuclear bombs would be made with plutonium. The Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was given the task of selecting a site for this plutonium work. They chose a place called Rocky Flats, 16 miles northwest of downtown Denver.
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